War Policy Dominates Democratic Debate After Trump’s Iran Strike
- A smaller field of six made the cut for Des Moines debate
- Warren, Sanders clash over whether he said a woman can’t win
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The top Democratic presidential candidates used the final debate before the Iowa caucuses to make their case to be commander-in-chief less than two weeks after President Donald Trump took the biggest foreign-policy risk of his presidency by killing a top Iranian general.
The six contenders argued for a reduced U.S. role in the Middle East after two decades in Iraq, and also Afghanistan -- a point Pete Buttigieg brought home by remembering fellow soldiers who were too young to remember Congress’s decision to go to war in 2002.